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Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: A and E Departments (21 May 2013)

Ann Clwyd: I ask the Secretary of State to deplore the personal attacks that are being made on Julie Bailey, who was responsible for drawing attention to the many deficiencies in Mid Staffordshire hospital. She has suffered personal attacks in the street and has had faeces pushed through her letterbox. We should all deplore the fact that that is happening to such an important and brave whistleblower.

Health and Social Care (13 May 2013)

Ann Clwyd: I am grateful to the 2,500 people from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland who have written to me since last December, when I first raised the issue of compassion in nursing. The e-mails keep coming and I want to quote from some of them. A man whose elderly mother was in hospital asked how many staff it takes to cut a fingernail: “The hospital staff won’t cut my mother’s...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: CHOGM (Colombo) (23 April 2013)

Ann Clwyd: What discussions he has had with his Commonwealth counterparts about the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Colombo in 2013 and the progress being made on tackling human rights abuses in Sri Lanka.

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: CHOGM (Colombo) (23 April 2013)

Ann Clwyd: It is obviously not enough, because the Sri Lankans are not listening. They do not listen to the UN or the Commonwealth. It beggars belief that we think that they will listen more if CHOGM goes ahead there and we attend. I ask the UK Government to think carefully about the signal that it will send about their commitment to human rights if they go ahead with that visit.

[Mr Philip Hollobone in the Chair] — A and E Waiting Times (23 April 2013)

Ann Clwyd: Thank you, Mr Hollobone. It is a pleasure to be here under your chairmanship. I am sorry that you are unable to be on the Floor making your own points, but I am sure you will find other ways to do so. I shall start by going through some press headlines from the past few weeks: The Mail on Sunday, “Shock 250% rise in patients waiting more than 4 hours in A and E: Six-month total soars by...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Human Rights (18 March 2013)

Ann Clwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he (a) has appointed and (b) plans to appoint any parliamentary human rights envoys to countries identified by his Department as countries of concern in connection with their human rights records.

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Trade Promotion (18 March 2013)

Ann Clwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many parliamentary trade envoys have been appointed since May 2010; who has been appointed as such envoys and to which countries; and whether he plans to appoint others in the coming year.

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Trade Promotion (18 March 2013)

Ann Clwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what (a) terms of reference and (b) duties have been provided to parliamentary trade envoys.

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Trade Promotion (18 March 2013)

Ann Clwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what funding has been allocated to parliamentary trade envoys to allow them to fulfil their terms of reference and carry out all related duties.

Justice Committee Report: Youth Justice: Accountability and Transparency in the NHS (14 March 2013)

Ann Clwyd: I congratulate the hon. Member for Bristol North West (Charlotte Leslie) on securing this debate. It is with great regret that I continue to speak about issues of abuse and neglect in our national health service. As of now, I have personally received more than 2,000 e-mails and letters. The letters continue to come every day; I want to mention just a few. All who have sent them want their...

Backbench Business — Death Penalty (India): Kurdish Genocide (28 February 2013)

Ann Clwyd: I congratulate the hon. Member for Stratford-on-Avon (Nadhim Zahawi) on securing this important debate, which, of course, has particular significance around this time. For years, I have chaired meetings in the Grand Committee Room of the House of Commons and we have commemorated Halabja year after year. Indeed, in 1988 along with Members from across the House, I took a group of women to a...

Backbench Business — Death Penalty (India): Kurdish Genocide (28 February 2013)

Ann Clwyd: I remember that very well. It was not the only occasion we were rebuffed, because we, and many others who are long gone from this House, continued the campaign. We should recognise that although Saddam Hussein was executed on the basis of a previous trial, the rest of the co-defendants were charged with genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Anfal campaign. As I said earlier,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Under-occupancy Penalty (27 February 2013)

Ann Clwyd: What assessment he has made of the potential effect of the under-occupancy penalty on social housing in Wales.

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Under-occupancy Penalty (27 February 2013)

Ann Clwyd: No. 12, Mr Speaker.

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Under-occupancy Penalty (27 February 2013)

Ann Clwyd: I shall take the moment, Mr Speaker. One immediate measure that would protect the most-vulnerable people would be to exempt those on disability living allowance from this tax. Will the Minister urgently review this policy?

Written Answers — Defence: Uzbekistan (25 February 2013)

Ann Clwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what discussions he has had with the Government of Uzbekistan about military equipment to be transferred to the latter in exchange for shipping out UK military hardware following the UK's withdrawal from Afghanistan; and whether his Department plans to seek any undertakings in respect of the use of such equipment.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (Inquiry) (6 February 2013)

Ann Clwyd: Apart from addressing the training of nurses, we need nurses who do not mind wiping people’s bottoms or holding the sick bowl under somebody’s face, but there are not enough of those any more. I am glad that the Prime Minister talked about compassion and care. I have received more than 1,000 letters and e-mails since I first spoke out from people who echo some of the points he has...

Written Answers — Wales: Pneumonia (14 January 2013)

Ann Clwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales pursuant to the answer of 18 December 2012, Official Report, column 690W, on pneumonia, when he will write providing the figures for deaths from hospital-acquired pneumonia at University Hospital Wales Cardiff in each of then last five years.